gnome-shell crashes with SIGSEGV in meta_plugin_manager_xevent_filter() from x_event_source_dispatch()

[Caleb Lawrence]

I can login using unity but when I choose gnome it takes while and the screen turns black and eventually it brings me back to the login page. this only started happening after upgrading to ubuntu 17.10.

I've tried removing the .Xauthority file. I've also tried purging Nvidia drivers.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.24.2-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-10.15-generic 4.11.8
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.5-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Jul 20 08:43:48 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-12-13 (218 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f6ad2d03790 <meta_plugin_manager_xevent_filter>: mov 0x8(%rdi),%rdi
 PC (0x7f6ad2d03790) ok
 source "0x8(%rdi)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rdi" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 meta_plugin_manager_xevent_filter () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-0.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_loop_run () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in meta_plugin_manager_xevent_filter()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-05-22 (58 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 meta_plugin_manager_xevent_filter () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_KbZtfv/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-0.so.0
 x_event_source_dispatch () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_KbZtfv/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-0.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_KbZtfv/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_context_iterate.isra () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_KbZtfv/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_loop_run () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_KbZtfv/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Gian Carlo (giancarlo-pace)]

This bug happens to me quite frequently (from once to three times per day) and it's quite annoying.

It appears to be random even if sometimes it happens when I try to open the notification window (in the topbar clicking on the date time)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) reached end-of-life on July 19, 2018.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-shell (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]